38: Ryan Kavanaugh

STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The freckle-faced wunderkind represents a new breed of impresario, relying on computer simulations to figure out which films to green-light. He often persuades stars and directors to work for relatively miserly fees in return for big ownership stakes in their films, and lets them shoot scripts that other studios consider too risky or offbeat.

CLOUD OF UNCERTAINTY: Relativity’s recent move into film distribution has rankled the studios for which it supplied an ongoing stream of movies. The latest dustup: jockeying with longtime outlet Universal Pictures over competing Snow White productions.

MOGUL RELATIONS: After Kavanaugh won an early round in a lawsuit filed against Relativity by the Weinstein Company, he issued a press release charging the company with misusing “the court system as a means of intimidation.”

COOL FRIEND: Leonardo DiCaprio.

SIGNATURE LOOK: Converse sneakers and dark jeans.

EVIDENCE OF TRUMP-LIKE BEHAVIOR: The financier has in the past had a tenuous relationship with the facts, prompting Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke to snipe, “He rarely tells the truth about anything involving his company.”

Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke said the producer “rarely tells the truth about anything involving his company.”